It would be a Spoonerism (the reversal of the first letters of words), with the word Scubatank as starting point - demonstrably false, Ladies and Gentlemen of the Jury.

One of the most beautiful statements is that in the waiting room of a record studio the band met a man suffering from Gilles de la Tourette Syndrome, the defect that makes people uncontrollably swear out loud. The man would have called out repeatedly Hoobastank! Hoobastank! Hoobastank!

What do the band members have to say about the subject? We call to the stand singer Doug Robb: 'It doesn't mean anything. And it's really cool, it's one of those old high school inside-joke words that didn't really mean anything.' We rest our case.

But wait: on 16 december 2003, in the program Loveline, the band members apparently claimed that Hoobastank is the name of a gas station somewhere in Germany.